Long Beach State men’s basketball coach Dan Monson was hopeful that his three mid-season transfers would be eligible to play in tonight’s nonconference game at UCLA, which will be telecast on the Pac-12 Networks.

As of about 90 minutes before the 8 p.m. tip-off, the first-semester grades had yet to be posted for guard Keala King, forward Tony Freeland and post Edgar Garibay, said Roger Kirk, sports information director at Long Beach.

However, Kirk did say that while King and Freeland are not even at Pauley Pavilion, Garibay is present, which means there is a possibility he will play.

That means that even with Garibay, who is 6-foot-10, the 49 ers (4-6) would again be playing with a shallow squad that would include just nine players as sophomore